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A five-week-old exclusively breastfed boy is brought to the general practitioner because he is still yellow. He was born at term weighing 3.4 kg and now weighs…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A boy is born at 39 weeks by normal vaginal birth and cries immediately. He is dried, weighed and then bathed by a student midwife before being wrapped and plac…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 16-year-old girl with focal epilepsy attends a general practice alone and asks for contraception. She has been seizure-free for two years on carbamazepine and…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 15-year-old boy attends a bulk-billing general practice alone for a sports injury certificate. You have completed a psychosocial screen covering home, school,…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 16-year-old girl with anorexia nervosa is reviewed in an outpatient eating disorder clinic. Over the past six weeks her weight has fallen 3 kg to 42 kg; she i…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche
A 13-year-old girl attends with her mother for a check before she starts high school sport. Her mother's cousin wore a spinal brace as a teenager, and she asks…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 14-month-old boy is brought to a regional emergency department with a scald to his left forearm and hand. He had been sitting in the bath and turned the hot t…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 6-week-old boy is brought to a general practice for a routine check. He was born at term weighing 3.2 kg and now weighs 4.0 kg. He is formula fed, taking 90 m…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 4-month-old girl with a large ventricular septal defect is reviewed before surgical repair. She breastfeeds every two hours but takes 40 minutes each time, sw…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
At an immunisation visit, the mother of a 3-year-old boy says he hits his 10-month-old sister several times a day, usually while she is being fed. She has tried…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 15-year-old girl is seen alone at a general practice. During the psychosocial interview she says she has been cutting her left forearm most weeks for three mo…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 30-month-old boy is reviewed after the practice nurse completed an Ages and Stages Questionnaire with his mother. He scores below the cut-off for communicatio…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 7-month-old girl is brought to a rural general practice. Her weight has fallen from the 50th centile to below the 0.4th centile over three months; her length…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 4-month-old girl is referred because her head circumference has fallen from the 25th percentile at birth to below the 3rd percentile. She was born at 39 weeks…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · niche
A woman who is 19 weeks pregnant with her second child asks what she can do to protect the new baby from whooping cough. Her 2-year-old daughter is fully immuni…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A 3-year-old boy is brought to the general practice because he uses only about twenty single words and no two-word phrases. He passed his newborn hearing screen…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A 12-year-old boy had blood taken during a work-up for recurrent abdominal pain, which has since settled without treatment. He is well, is Tanner stage 3, and h…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche
You are asked to chart regular paracetamol for a 14-year-old boy on the first day after an open appendicectomy. He weighs 68 kg and is 174 cm tall. He has no li…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A term newborn girl is examined on the postnatal ward. She lay in a breech position from 34 weeks and was delivered by caesarean section. With the baby relaxed…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 5-week-old girl is brought to the emergency department after two episodes of vomiting and an hour of unusual drowsiness. She was born at home at term after an…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist